Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. We were using the the phrase open source in 1987 when I first started using the internet and it had been around as part of the BASIC homebrew community for at least a decade prior. Edit: All of this fails to understand that the US patent office is not the whole thing. A trademark needs to be registered with WIPO to really be enforceable in the internet age, ironically since 1995. US based only, only applies to and is only enforceable inside yankville.
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  2. I know you only cover tech, but this issue isn't just tech. This is* across all industries that hold respect, power, or both in the community.
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  3. Some teenagers have started flaming some people who take themselves too seriously for luls. And they overreact as the teens expected. Amazing.
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  4. 18:23 The three words that doom any distro to obscurity. "It's power user".
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  5. Not if destroying the project is the goal.
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  6. Their new chair of AI comes from an organisation that was confirmed receiving USAID funding.
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  7. I hope they do vote to keep DEI. Apple should have gone bankrupt in the 90s. They destroyed innovation by not going bankrupt earlier. Going bankrupt now from lawsuits over DEI would be a consolation that helps return innovation to the market.
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  8. 9:13 The King of Saudi is the King. The Crown Prince of Saudi will be his successor. He takes some duties, but is not in charge yet, he must have approval from his father, the King. 11:28 Bezos isn't the world's richest man. Neither is Elon. The Crown Prince of Saudi is a Crown Prince, the treasury of Saudi is his bank account. He's worth $1.4T, more than 4 times the net worth of Bezos. You didn't think it was weird those Forbes and Bloomberg rich lists were all people from your country? None of those people are even in the top 20 globally. You don't hear about the world's richest people.
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  9. By the criteria of the list yankville have made, that would make all US big tech AND the Linux Foundation, Yankvillian military companies. That is re-tar-ded. Yankvillian anticompetitive practices are insane. Anyway, can't the Linux Foundation just move its incorporation out of yankville and not have to comply with this craziness anymore? That seems like the easiest path ...
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  10. I truly loath Win 11, it's an* odd year release so it's garbage like ME, Vista or Win 8. I despise that there isn't an overlap this time with support for Win 10 until we get to Win 12. Notepad shouldn't have tabs or spellcheck let alone anything worth paying for. Notepad should just be a lightweight text editor that performs the basic function of displaying user input text. That's it, nothing else.
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  11. Omg. Omg. Omg. This has made my day. Thank you mate. Could we also get the flame wars of bbs? From back before 94 when the internet was all male so it was actually fun.
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  12. The problem Bryan is that you think of this in terms of just an isolated hiring practice. But it's not. You take it at face value in the present instead of understanding the end goal. This is socialism. Not as hyperbole. It's socialism as in actual socialism. As in an active, coordinated attempt to push socialism. That's what ESG, actually is. That's what DEI, actually is. That's why word policing takes place. That's why they want to get rid of merit. That's why you need to agree with "the message" or you are excluded and punished socially. Equity is socialism, it's a means to push everyone to the bottom, so only the elites stand out. The elites aren't the producers, they're the people who impress glorious leader the most with their dedication to the cause. It's all in there Bryan. It is literally socialism. It needs to be called out for what it is. A socialist Coup d'état
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  13. I have a third prediction for you. That welcoming attitude will be the downfall of the project. It's what will turn it woke. I predict that because you've just created an environment where it is put on a bunch of people's radar, a bunch of the people who flood into the project will be subversives. They'll hide amongst all the other normal users. Over the next 6 months they'll engineer scenarios that see good people banned from the project. Over the next 12 months, they'll engineer scenarios that see key people ousted from the project, and that see subversives take their place. Within the next 18 months, I predict we'll see it go the same way as Debian. It won't have with open mandrake because those guys aren't neutral. They're anti-woke so it colours their vision differently. But Devuan is neutral and welcoming, and when the socialists have a coordinated attempt to take things over that stance is a weakness.
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  14. Same thing. If you go after DEI, you by default must also impact H1B.
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  15. @kamu38  What you should note is that it isn't in industries that do not hold respect, power or both in the community. It's almost as if this* isn't driven by the industries or institutions themselves, but instead by a selection of cohorts who are trying to take control, and once captured companies fall into line.
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  16. Iconic? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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  17. I agree, linux sucks. It will keep sucking until someone can make money from it so they can hire full-time staff to make polished, user-friendly, fool proof software, that just works, and is good enough to attract developers of things people actually want to use. When Linux becomes more like Windows, and MacOS and Android, and less like Linux, it will stop sucking. I don't care how much that hurts anyone's feels. Reality is reality. Linux is great if you're a nerd or you need to run massive corporate server infrastructure. But for ordinary users, it sucks.
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  18. When you hire people based on traits, at the expense of merit and productivity, you don't only have a higher chance of acquiring low performers. You are also incentivising those who would otherwise have been medium performers, to be low performers. They didn't need to earn the job, and there is no real risk to them of being fired regardless of how little they perform. So they're going to stack slacking, and slacking, and slacking, until they become low performers who do basically nothing but get a pay cheque. I expect the first round of lay offs to be the meta "product managers" who go on tiktok and do those day in the life videos where they just eat all day, mess around and do no actual work. Those women documented their low performance publicly.
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  19. 🙋‍♂️ I was one of the 12% who believed MacOS shared history with Linux through unix/BSD.
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  20. Sorry to double comment, but I just wanted you to know bryan that I through the last episode on this topic into audition, clipped out the part were you read the message, added some effects and set it as my new mail notification sound. "Ok, I'm just going to read it, this isn't me, I'm just reading what it says... N****r balls" Now I get a chuckle every time I get new emails. I'm glad you toned the nerd stuff down, so I'll subscribe via substack or locals.
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  21. This stops when these companies get sued for discrimination on the basis of race.
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  22. I love the lunduke journal. I watch every episode you put out. I like your episodes, I share them. I comment on them. But Bryan, I'm not a nerd, and I genuinely feel insulted when you call me one by way of claiming everyone watching is one. Genuinely insulted and it's what is stopping me from purchasing a subscription. I really want to subscribe, but you gotta stop calling me a nerd. You can call yourself one. You can reference your audience as one, but can you just also acknowledge that some of your audience aren't nerds and just want good quality industry journalism?
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  23. @ferrumignis  I was talking about this specific thread. It happens several times a day for me. I don't even say anything controversial. It's very weird.
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  24. Truth isn't created.
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  25. As anyone who has run a server with unsecured, open messaging services knows, you get flamers, you get bots, you get strange messages, and they can impact the whole server. Here's what I think happened. Codebergs has a novice webmin who is also a socialist and engaged in those circles. A teenager came along and either manually or with a bot thought it would be funny to flame them with the message. The webmin saw normal site traffic behaviour and thought it was an attack They became melodramatic as socialists often do, and made large claims because to a hammer everything is a nail. Some of the webmins socialist friends picked up on the melodrama and go in. Seeing the support, the webmin then turned it into a marketing campaign to profit. I humbly suggest this started as naivety (as socialists usually are), turned into melodrama (as socialists often create) and then morphed into self enrichment (as socialism always does).
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  26. @Omnifarious0  It's also worth noting in case I wasn't obviously in my previous comment when I mentioned public domain, that the real point of these licences is that copyright is never withdrawn. They remain proprietary and the original copyright holder is free to vary, modify or outright withdraw their licencing at any point. Linus for example could decide that you need to pay him a fee to use the Linux kernal. That's something I expect will happen once he passes copyright on. Or he could just make the linux kernal closed source and proprietary only for use on official sanctioned linux builds similar to to how windows or macos operate and such a decision would be retrospective so no existing distro would be legal unless he said so. Google could do the same with chorium. Any dev who uses such a licence for original software could do that. The only real open, free software is software in the public domain. Once something is in the public domain it has no ownership and is free for everyone to do what they wish with including modification and redistribution without the need for any kind of licence whatsoever.
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  27. Elon is back to showing his true colours. Elon doesn't want H-1B for some patriotic reason. He wants it because it drives down wages, it drives down overall business costs and the sponsor to hold the visa holder hostage if they want to remain in yankville. It's a magnate being a magnate and acting exclusively in his own interests without considering the interests of the people and the country. You really want someone like that in charge of government spending? Elon is a barnum style fellow who belongs in federal prison, not in federal government
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  28. He would convince you that DEI is the greatest thing in the world and make it popular.
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  29. If only we had a word to describe someone who is enthusiastic about CP. Hmmmm If only being enthusiastic about CP was a crime.. oh wait it is. Pedos belong in prisons, and what their opinions on tech conferences are is irrelevant.
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  30. 24:20 I am very technical. I am not a nerd. I was an athlete. I view nerd as a derogatory put down still and always will. Please do not call me a nerd. From my perspective a lot of what is happening is essentially the plot of the movie "revenge of the nerds". To fix things we need to put nerds back in their place towards the bottom of the social hierarchy. That's what trump is doing. That's why suddenly Zuckerberg is trying to be masculine. Jocks are coming back baby.
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  31. 26% funding loss for a small project like this with no further spills won't really hurt them. They might need to make some full time people, part time or casual, but the project will keep going and doing its little niche thing. This isn't really an example of go woke, go broke. The donators didn't choose to stop donating, the project decided they didn't want their money. Guess they calculated the loss in advance.
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  32. LMG has been a woke socialist company for years now. I have all of their channels blocked on youtube because I don't want to support ideologues. Same goes for L1 Tech and a bunch of similar large tech channels. They all push the wokey socialist narrative. Linus personally has stated in videos that he believes in the racism to equality argument. Just stop watching. Let LMG fall apart. Be more conscious of woke creators and stop watching them too. If we make having these views publicly an instant go broke moment then they will stop being repeated ad nausium.
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  33. 25:02 That's why you're banned. That's why people who ask questions and don't want to go down that path are banned. You want the project to succeed, and they want to burn it all down. They want to actively cause it to fail. They want to actively cause all the systems and institutions of civilisation to fail. That's the entire point. That's phase one of any socialist agenda. The only way to stop them is to inoculate society against their subversion. That means helping people to understand what the socialists are really upto and what their agenda is. That's how we get back to normal.
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  34. I think you're right about everything you said, except what you said about Brave. They said "a seat with any meaningful standing" for free. For the linux foundation that sounds about right. Brave holds 0.05% market share. They get lumped in with "other". But the back-up plan for Chrome so they can retain control, yeah I completely expect that's the case. I just doubt it will need to be used. It has to exist as a just in case, I just think it's more likely than not based on past monopoly hearings for big tech, that this all shakes out closer to a slap on the wrist with no meaningful change than not.
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  35. @Rope257  At least you only got shadow banned. I posted a comment which yt have deleted but been good enough to still keep giving me notifications for the thread anyway.
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  36. The company does not want to be in the PC business. They also don't want to be in the iOS device because. They want to be in the fashion business. They've wanted to be in the fashion business for many years, including while steve was alive. It's why they dropped computer from the name. Switching from a PC company to a fashion company is what saved Apple and not only kept them afloat but made them relevant. Relevant in a way they had never been at any point before that. For everything Bryan is talking about as "mac-like", it only led to Apple circling the drain. That's why the future of mac, isn't a mac.
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  37. @Majiger  Man, I put in all that effort replying to you and youtube deleted it.
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  38. I hope you have gone to the police with these clear and obvious threats/incitement to violence. I hope you pursue it to the full extent of the law and seek to have them experience the consequences of their actions. The irony of socialists who have invented the term "minor attracted" and are attempting to normalise it, trying to use it in a libellous way. What a joke
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  39. I miss netscape.
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  40. The wokey socialists didn't just turn up Monday and kick everyone out Tuesday. They're all long term contributors. FAOS has always been full of socialists because the entire idea of FAOS is in line with socialism. Those people just got emboldened.
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  41. I hear what you're saying and I still think you're right about them planning for a worst possible outcome. However, I remain unconvinced that such a worst possible outcome will actually happen. They have a duty of care to shareholders to plan for the worst. I do not buy the argument about them not planning for a good outcome as some kind of evidence they don't think that's the most likely outcome. Firstly, no one needs to plan for a slap on the wrist, and secondly even if such planning were taking place we wouldn't see it. That wouldn't be general knowledge around google campuses. It would be a very selective group of people in the c suite and legal, who know the whole thing. People who will not talk about it even if you're their best friend who does a journalist podcast. If we look at the details of the Microsoft case and the Google case they are ridiculously similar. They even had similar set ups in court transcripts. But you also have a new administration taking office in 5 days. That includes a new DOJ. The Trump administration is stacked with monopolists. Some of which have their own antitrust cases coming down the pipe. You really think they're going to let this Google case buck the trend and create new precedent that puts them at greater risk? I don't buy it for a moment. I'd also like to point out that if you and I can see with transparency what Google is doing as their backup plan, then prosecutors and judges can too. So if they were really trying to nail Google to the wall, this back up plan wouldn't work the judge would order the sale of Chrome to an entity google has no involvement with. That you acknowledge this back up plan might work, is an acknowledgement that the courts are willing to overlook transparently obvious things and aren't really going after Google that hard. And if that's the case, a fine instead becomes much more likely. I have a long history of getting these kinds of predictions right too. Maybe I'm wrong this time, maybe you are. Time will tell.
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  42. 17:50 That is a he, not a she. Microsoft are going down a path of self-destruction. Many corporations will drop them when all this woke stuff goes away.
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  43. 5:30 That list sounds like it's directed at preschool children. 10:19 He is saying that if he gets called out for saying wacko things, that is violence that he will experience because he will feel bad about his ideas. He won't change his ideas, but he'll feel less included so that's violence.
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  44.  @magnum333  Of course it is.
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  45. This is very simple. Any project with "libre" in the name is 9 times out of 10 going to be woke. Also, any project that has messaging about "freedom" and "privacy" is also 9 times out of 10 going to be woke. These have become far left socialist dog whistles. Also, people who base their ideology of software around the concept that all software should be free and without real ownership, is already 3/4 of the way to socialism. So when such projects turn far left socialist, it is not in the least bit surprising. What we need is for profit, paid software that focuses on privacy. That's what we need. Then they have a financial incentive to not go off the rails.
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  46. Palaver is pronounced PAH-LAH-VAH. I would completely support a return to Netscape in name, spirit and ideology.
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  47. Be a zelenskyy? So he wants us to violently overthrow government and become a puppet dictator?
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  48. @elkneto4334  🥱
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  49. It's weird that you separate out woke and DEI as if they're different things. It's also unhelpful that you use these code words, like woke, like far left, but never seem to acknowledge what they mean. They mean socialism. These are socialists. 19:37 You are talking as if it's obvious that Debian want to succeed. That socialist tech journalists want Debian to succeed. That their goal is to grow their distribution. But that's not how socialists think. Yes, they're watching as SUSE and Debian burn to the ground. But they're cheering as it does. Just like they cheered when Malibu burned years ago and they're cheering now as Palisades burns. It's deliberate. There are many in the far left writing and talking about it. Burning down the large institutions is a core tenant of socialism. It's their first step to their so called utopia, which is our dystopia. It's their dystopia too they just haven't clocked on yet. But listen, if you genuinely thought socialism could create a lollipop world where everyone was happy all the time, no one suffered, everyone got along, everyone lived in luxury, no one had to work if they didn't want to, etc, etc. If you had no grounding in practical reality or maths, so you genuinely believed that was possible and was something your ideology could create, and people opposed it, you wouldn't like those people much either. You'd probably think those people were the worst people too. So you can't try to appeal to their practicality or common sense in order to stop kicking people out of their projects who disagree with them. Not only do they genuinely believe the people they kick out are awful people for standing in the way of their utopia, but Debian also is part of the system they view as the problem so it has to be turned to ash so that utopia can be built upon it.
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  50. @jtjames79  I was around during Unix. What you're saying is what I believed, however apparently that isn't true. What is true? No idea, Bryan didn't say.
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  51. I disagree on your interpretation of what he said. If I have a coding project and I love how welcome we make people feel, especially people who have never coded before in their lives, I'm not saying that I want to welcome veteran coders any less. I'm saying I see that people who have never coded before being involved in the project is somehow special and that everyone else is just expected to be there. There are definitely things wrong with what he said. He's essentially saying he expects the default of people involved would be white 30s males. So he's saying it's remarkable when anyone who isn't a white 30s male gets involved. It's very condescending, very racist and very misogynistic. But it isn't saying white males are excluded. For confirmation change the context. Say he's a spokesman for a pro NBA team. Now say your revised version.
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  52.  @BAD_CONSUMER  No one knows who you're talking to. Learn how to use youtube
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  53. Wikipedia is a non-credible website where reality isn't objectively curated by qualified, paid subject matter experts, but by the general public overseen by activists. It's always been that way. They have been curating their articles to "the message" at expense of facts for years now. Wikipedia is a bad place to get information on the best of days. Maybe now you all might finally stop using it and start using credible sources of information. If it's "free" you're the product for sale. In this case it's your mind they want to corrupt.
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  54. Evolving to what? What physical media is Bluray dying to make way for?
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  55. I'm willing to bet DistroWatch know why they've been blocked by Facebook. If they haven't mentioned it before now, when it's been happening for at least 3 years, they know why it's happening. If they're willing to lie now for an ideological agenda there's a good chance the filter is well deserved.
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  56. @markmelvin4254  I see no honour in it. Nerds are weak men, and weak men create bad times. I understand we're living in a reverge of the nerds world right now, but the pendulum has already begun swinging back in the opposite direction. Back towards the jocks, where I stand. Give it a decade and everyone will agree with me again that being called a nerd is an insult.
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  57. @moetocafe  Linus isn't in the executive management team of the linux foundation. He has no real say over it. Jim Zemlin is the executive director, and Nithya Ruff from Amazon is board chair person. Linus isn't even the head of the Kernal, he's just a fellow of the linux foundation. He retains authority over what goes into the kernal but the team is actually headed by RedHats Don Zickus. Every year they put less and less into the kernal as Linus prepares to retire.
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  58.  @ventriloquistmagician4735  The entirety of the linux foundation is woke. They invest most of their money into woke activism and decidely not into linux. The kernal development budget is bearly more than Linus' salary. The Linux Foundation is controlled and run by all the big corporate players in tech. Everyone on that board represents a company with gross revenues in excess of a 100 billion dollars a year. Most closer to a trillion. So real talk, Linus is going to retire before the end of this decade. He'll turn 62 (classic retirement age) in 2032. He's said he intends to retire by 2030. What do you think happens to Linux as a project in total, to the kernal, to the direction it takes, after Linus retires? After his last fleeting control, that being what goes into the kernal and what doesn't, disappears? What do you think happens when the makers of all of its competiting operating systems, gain full control?
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  59. @moetocafe  He in fact is not the head of the kernal. He's just a fellow, he only retains a right to veto what goes in. But he's not in charge. He is planning for retirement. No, he can't just take off and form another foundation. He's signed away most of his ownership to TLF The Linux project will be a very different thing after Linus retires.
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  60. Someone who gets led off a path against there will, and continuing to claim their views and intentions haven't changed, is just going to find another means to continue down their original path. Perhaps they'll be more careful how they hide it or go about it, but they'll keep doing it. Maxine has been moved from DEI into a new department doing the same things as DEI but using different words. Amazing. Nothing is really changing at Meta. It's still going to do DEI, it'll just call it something else and go about it in a slightly different way. I'm sure the far left employees are crying though because they're children.
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  61. @justliberty4072  It has nothing to do with the size of an organisation, or whether they can "take a hit to productivity". All businesses, all of them, are in business to make as much money as possible. Businesses of all sizes turn woke. They get captured by socialism. The same thing happened to the soviet countries after the Bolsheviks.
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  62. @justliberty4072  No. It's in SME for affected industries too. It isn't the companies, it's the captured industry.
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  63. @horusfalcon  DEI is an organisation level hiring policy. For every tech company you can name with a DEI policy, there are 10 without one. It isn't taking down an industry. Whether Apple votes to keep or remove its hiring practices won't impact the hiring policies of other companies. Microsoft and Google will keep their DEI regardless of what Apple do. So will the Linux foundation and all the main Linux distros.
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  64. @horusfalcon  We're talking about Apple. Please try to stay on topic. What I said about tech companies and DEI, also applies to game studios. No industries are collapsing. Some individual companies are making choices for various reasons. The big gaming companies need to fall too so video games can be centred back to their originally intended audience. Children. They are literally toys, after all. What apple's stockholders decide for its DEI policies won't impact game studios anymore than it will any other company. That is, zero. Apple need to stop existing. They have utterly destroyed innovation in the tech industry over the last 25 years. Not because of woke socialist ideology, but simply because their big saving grace to not go bankrupt in the 90s was to copy the popular things in the market in the cheapest and lamest way possible, gaslight everyone that they came up with them, charge 4x what the competition are asking, build in obsolescence and then try to make people feel less than if they don't buy apple made. It's an abusive relationship and it needs to be stopped. Symbian 9 was a fully touch screen mobile OS that supported apps from an app store and released 3 years before the iPhone by Nokia. The largest mobile phone maker in the world back then who truly innovated many times over with every generation of phones. But ask someone under 40 who invented the smartphone and they'll almost certainly claim it was Apple. Nokia didn't even invent it, they just innovated on it and made it popular. They ever claimed to have invented it, like Apple do. To this day you will find large chunks of people who will claim an iPod isn't an mp3 player, that it was something else. Their reasoning is something about the hard drive. But the Nomad Jukebox had a hard drive twice the size of the ipod, plus an fm tuner, mic in, voice recorder and line in with the ability to create your own MP3s from a CD or tape player and it was up to its 5th model by the time the ipod launched with just the hard drive. Go down the apple product stack and you'll find this trend repeated over and over again. And every time they do it, they squeeze out the creators of that product segment and stifle innovation further. Look at all the nokia phones. All the shapes. All the designs. Then the iPhone came, Nokia went bankrupt and now all phones are rectangles. Apple needs to go bankrupt for the benefit of the world.
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  65. You forgot to mention all the children included in this. The adults have themselves to blame for being adults and still engaging in childish things. But the kids, that's despicable.
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  66. I wish people would stop putting GIMP forward as an alternative to Adobe CC. It isn't. It never was. GIMP is neigh unusable. It isn't made for creatives, it's made for "power users" who don't have a schedule or any meaningful requirements and so can spend 30 minutes stepping through convoluted actions to do simple things that can be achieved in a couple minutes on photoshop. And that's if GIMP can even do it at all.
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  67. My comments on youtube are almost constantly being automatically deleted or shadow banned. Talk about objective science and nup, deleted.
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  68. @ferrumignis  sounds about right
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  69. Google and Microsoft have their own rabbids running the show
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  70. Sounds like using Mozilla products now is allowing the people who want to install totalitarian socialist rule, look over your shoulder the whole time, and keep a record of everything you do. Clearly that information isn't staying in mozilla. It's going somewhere else. It is really dystopian
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  71. @Varelinski  To be clear, I'm criticising all sides of this. To a hammer everything is a nail. To a socialist, everything is far right. But just like the teacher getting mad at the kid in the back of her class isn't news, neither is this. It's a for-profit organisation. Let it crumble. Plenty of alternatives.
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  72. Why do people care so much if they get "attacked" by a bunch of extremest losers? Just laugh in their face and get on with your day. They're irrelevant.
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  73. @Majiger  Sure, and I've advocated to change that for a long time. But clearly some distros are trying to change linux, and some are not. Mint isn't power user focused for example. It tries. It doesn't do a great job, but it tries.
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  74. @Majiger  I thought I was clear Mint, which was merely the first example that popped into my head, wasn't doing a good job. SteamOS isn't really linux or a desktop interface. It's a linux subsystem in the same way android is. If we want to count SteamOS,,then Android has already brought linux to the mainstream and tada there we go. And by that measure BSD must be the second most popular OS in the world because of MaxOS. But we both know what makes these projects successful is 1. Everyone involved is paid (excluding aosp) 2. They build away from their source code as quickly as possible in order to turn themselves into something distinct. SteamOS isn't in the Windows launcher. It's not ever going to be in the windows launcher. It's on their handheld but that's not selling that well. Just like their attempt at a tv console didn't sell very well. Uptake of SteamOS is slim. Linux users are just 2.32% of all Steam users and SteamOS users make up 41% of all Linux users on Stearn. So, SteamOS accounts for something like just 1.25% of Steam users. Linux as an open source project will NEVER be successful. Ever. Only those projects like MacOS and Android that use it as a basis and move away from it as quickly as possible with a custom kernal and custom code, and that do it for profit will a full time paid development staff will ever be successful. Linux needs to commercialise.
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  75. @slaapliedje  Nope. You could have hundreds of laptop models on sale in big box retailers with Debian or OpenMandriva on them and they'd bearly selll any. Even if they were half price, they'd bearly sell. The year of the linux desktop won't be until Linux becomes a closed source, commercial piece of software that puts "it's for power users" into the background, and replaces that motto with "it's for grandma". When Linux looks as refined as windows, macos or android, is sold by licence, has commercial software people actually want to use (including the software they already use, not FOSS alternatives) and "just works" without the user needing to know literally anything about computers and certainly never needs to touch a CLI. When it does that, fortune 500s will switch to linux because it's already on their servers and that streamlines the whole thing. When fortune 500s switch, then so will schools because the whole point is to teach kids the systems they'll use at work. While Linux remains, free, opensource and fragmented, it isn't going anywhere
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  76. I am gen x and I have never in my life watched a bluray. I moved to digital only movies and tv shows when DVDs were still a thing. Physical media for games, that's important. But only so far as the game itself doesn't rely on a server. Because games should be playable forever. Books too, physical media is important. But movies, tv shows, music, etc? Nah. No need for physical media there. There is streaming, there is digital purchasing and there is sailing the seven seas for everything that doesn't fit in the former two. If you don't have plex, or jellyfin or whatever other such system yet you are doing it wrong. Catch up. If the internet goes down permanently, I can still watch any of the movies, tv shows, home movies or listen to any of the music, audiobooks, etc I have. A collection that would take up a good portion of the liveable area in my house if it were still physical. InB4 the inevitable chump argument about "ownership". You have NEVER owned any of these things even on physical media. The licencing has ALWAYS been like this and revoking your access even on physical media has always been an option. What changed is the ease of enforcement.
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  77. I mean, there are definitely people more against free speech, but of course FOSS is anti free speech. It's a social pilar. The socialists have to target it. All the leadership who might have otherwise pushed back were pushed out or censored first. It's insidious Today it's bannings on the internet, tomorrow it's bannings from life if they're allowed to continue their slow march through institutions. Edit: Of course it's fascist style censorship, the fascists were socialists. So were the germans who liked to put jews in camps, and the Spaniards who did the same. Polpot and Mao too. That's what socialism is really about. Totalitarian comtrol and extracting the means of production. You can't convince socialists to not censor. It's like saying you want to convince a lion to not eat meat. We can't ban and censor socialists because we want free speech. That's a contradiction. Free speech means everyone can have free speech. What we need is to build new organisations faster than they can destroy them.
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  78. Because socialism wants to burn everything down in order to build their dystopia.
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  79. Whenever a company doing antisocial things like Mozilla is asks you to do something so their activities don't have to stop it's important to do the opposite and to not just do nothing. Why? Well, because if they ask for a write in campaign and even just a couple hundred people take it, even though that only represents less than a percent of their user base the recipient of that write in campaign will still be getting a lot of emails asking for the same thing. With no equally sized or larger opposing voice the recipient has to take that write in campaign as reflective of the general views of everyone. They will feel overwhelmed and the outcome becomes more likely the funding will be upheld. However, if as many or more people write in saying not to continue the funding, and write to their representatives saying the same, then it dilutes their message and pushes back against it. The path of least resistance then becomes to continue with not funding the activity and so that is what government orgs will do. Make sense? Please write to all the contacts Mozilla sent out telling them how much you don't want Mozilla to get that funding and why. 7:54 Oh look at their picture, colour me surprised that it turns out the people involved are fat, ugly social outcasts. All the freaks and geeks. This is why I look at nerd as an insult, and why I blame nerds for everything that's happening. Luckily there's a jock running yankville now and he's shoving the nerds back in their lockers.
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  80. @Omnifarious0  Open Source is not a licence. It's a general term used to describe software whose source code is open. It can thus be distributed freely. The A-2 licence dates back to 1953 and not only uses the term "open source" in the way we still use it today but allowed for free distribution and modification. IBM Share had a similar position in 1955. Then there was the Unix licence in '69 through the 70s. Emacs in 85 and GNU in 89. These are all licence structures for copyrighted works that allow distribution, modification and redistribution without making the work public domain. However, whilst they are often attached to open source, they are external to it. One could for example have a licence where the source code is open to view, however there is no right granted to distribute or modify. Similarly, you could have closed source software that can be modified by way of an add-on or API system and freely distributed. Open source ONLY relates to the fact the source code is freely viewable. That's what I expect the other guy was getting at. Whether you can redistribute or not is not relevant to whether the term was used prior to 1998, which it absolutely and unequivocally was. When you just write @, people don't know who you're talking to. You can just click reply and youtube will automatically @ the user for you. What you're doing when you just write @ is the online equivalent of walking into a crowded room and just screaming a response to someone at the top of your lungs whilst not even looking at that purpose. No, it doesn't matter that there was just one other commenter.
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  81. @qbqbqdbq  I think you need to.
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  82. @qbqbqdbq  I think you need to actually read all the volumes of capital, plus the works from the late 20th and early 21st century. Particularly in '91 through '93 after the USSR fell. Would you like to know more?
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  83. So what you're saying is, Mozilla turned into Google when the Google money dried up. It's easy to claim values when someone else can do the dirty work and they'll send you money for doing essentially nothing. It's a completely different matter when you have to actually do something for a living. Btw, Mozilla have been activists for decades at this point. Striving for a free and open web is still activisim. They just changed their causes to ones we don't like in order to stay afloat without Google's money. But they're the same causes Google push too, and they want to make money in the same way as Google does from Chrome as well.
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  84. 👊 Yes! Apple will get sued into oblivion. Finally there won't be an Apple anymore and innovation can return.
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  85. The solution is obvious. Complain about everything as being offensive, to the point the complaints committee can no longer function and the WG21 can no longer meaningfully say anything to each other. At such a point they will understand their mistake and revert things to a functional state. The socialists are weaponising processes and the system. In order to preserve the processes and the system, we too need to exploit them in the same ways.
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  86. All sounds good, but it's still free linux at the end of the day. I'll be interested when it becomes closedMandriva and costs $300/licence with a focus on making it "just work" for someone who doesn't know how to use a computer and works with all the commercial (read useful) software I want to use. The kind of software the mainstream want to use isn't free. It can't be free, because making a polished, visually appealing, functional, "just works" OS for the mainstream lowest common denominator is expensive and time consuming. But more importantly when you give your software away there's no external incentive to push hard and fast to the next big innovation. If openMandriva came out with a closed source, paid third version that wasn't linux (at least in the sense that Android and MacOS aren't linux anymore), could natively run Adobe CC, the full onprem MedicalDirectoe suite, the desktop version of Microsoft 365, the full onprem SAP suite (particularly accounting and business objects), Blender, Avid Media Creator, etc, with driver support for enterprise hardware, easy software deployment, easy for my IT teams to lock down and role based tracking of user actions, mission critical stability and a strong, responsive customer support line, then I'd give it a go and if I liked it, I'd discuss transitioning my orgs to it with my IT teams. That's only something like 15K machines worldwide but that's a decent chunk of change in Mandrivas pockets from licencing and I have friends. Something that is a solid windows alternative. If it could also replace redhat on my servers that would be great. Linux needs to commercialise. Also, there are plenty of non-woke orgs in the world. Most just don't become political. We just don't notice them because they aren't saying anything, they have no active, public facing stance. LadyBirds mistake was having an active stance that they aren't going to become political. That's why they were targeted. They knew that, it was marketing. Just like this email from Mr Rosenkränzer is.
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  87. They have money and a monopoly position going for them. They also have someone who is heading a new government spending department and potential speaker of the house with the presidents ear as their friend. See, you're looking at this as if it's a fair, level playing ground and monopoly is bad. It's bad for consumers and competitors but it's a dandy position for the monopolist who gets the benefit of abundant corruption in the system. I suggest to you that the outcome is closer to Google's proposal here than the DOJs. If not exactly that proposal it'll be very close to it.
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  88. Koalas, are not bears. They're just Koalas.
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  89. There is no evidence of distillation. That it can be made to call itself chatgpt isn't evidence. There's enough of that stuff online that it's just as possible that it got it organically. It's also the case the OpenAI have distillation as something they're ok with inside their user agreement so long as it isn't for commercial purposes. Deepseek is free and opensource. It isn't commercial. I'm surprised at you Bryan. OpenAI and nVidia are just trying to pump their investors back up. They're willing to lie and steal to make that happen. You're reporting in a way to help them do that? It's gross. Also remember, all GPTs are trained on orher peoples works without their knowledge or permission. I think Fireship got this right.
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  90. Some of these questions would have been better as short answers, or at least with additional options in the multi choice. Logic on some of the questions would have also gone a long way. Yes, you can use basic logic in a google form to hide or show questions based on previous answers. Then you could have asked if I'm in yankville or not and the questions relating to it could have been hidden. Why was tiktok included as "social media" but yt wasn't? Why was reddit included, but 4chan wasn't? Why did you keep asking me about OSes bringing me joy? How small does your life have to be that sinply using an OS brings joy?
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  91. Microsoft shouldn't want such health cover, and certainly not mandatorily, for all employees BUT why is the focus on Microsoft for this when the clear violator here is the Insurance company offering the plan in the first place? Those "benefits" just simply shouldn't exist. Microsoft couldn't force their employees to have this if the insurance provider didn't offer it in the first place.
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  92. Just curious, what law(s) in yankville would it be breaking to promote sexuality to children? The camel cigarettes is a false equivalency, there is a clear age of admission before you can purchase those products. But can you create an age limit on a sexuality? Certainly it's creepy. Certainly I wouldn't let my kids use it. But what laws does it break? Trumps executive orders only relate to government departments. Edit: Genuinely interested Edit: Also, did you ever consider all of these downward spirts in society have happened since the nerds and outcasts inherited the world? It's almost as if there was a reason jocks kept freaks and geeks in line.
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  93. Hey Bryan. Couple of corrections Whilst some of them are communists not all of them are. They're all SOCIALISTS but communism is a very specific type of socialism. The hammer and sickle is used for both communism and socialism more broadly. Marxism was discredited in the 90s with the fall of the USSR. At that time it evolved into new socialism. New socialism is what most of these people subscribe to. It replaces the proletariat worker, with the environment, groups it can claim are oppressed based on immutable characteristics, and criticism of the system and its institutions. It's literally what ESG is all about. DEI is just an action stemming from ESG. Those rascally germans in the early 20th century whose name I can't mention otherwise my comment will be removed, were national socialists. That is, they were socialists too, but they didn't like the other socialists. The socialist want to destroy all the institutions, so they can be built up again in their image. That's how socialism works. I think you should look up Magnus Hirschfield and understand more about him than a cursory search. Magnus and his life, including both before and after WW2 are important framing for what is going on and why the "trans" thing goes with the socialist thing. He is a key player in getting us to this point. Worth noting too that Ayn Rand also predicted all of this would happen.
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  94. If you live in a rural area, you live in a low population area. Low population areas are low profit areas. Sorry mate, no large company cares if you can't stream movies.
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  95. @dustbin5044  lol. Film makers? Like writers and directors? They get paid a set amount, or a profit share. Either way streaming services aren't taking from them. Guess you won't be watching new movies soon.
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  96. You don't own the physical media you have anymore than you own the digital media
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  97. @itsasecrettoeverybody  False. Read the licence that is associated with your bluray. They can, in fact, take the disc back or order that you destroy it under threat of lawsuit if you do not. There is absolutely precedence. Physical media does not change the licence in any way.
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